Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education by Ross Housewright and Roger Schonfeld, August 18, 2008Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication: Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries, by Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith, Association [...]
Got one for ya..in WA State for 5 days & saw my first mountain of any size this morning..i have seen clouds, rain, and conference centers
Where Have All the Librarians Gone? The Academic Library Workforce of Today and Tomorrow
BAD . no info .. changed title to “…..” something different .. wouldnt have chosen
WILIS StudyGraying of workforceWhy people leftFollowup in Lib School Grad .. what are they doing?
Left Job to reasons:
Opportnities for growth
New Challenging projecrs
Salary
Location
Working Environment
Library Subject Guide Widgets
come and then leave –
lists of linksmultiple interfaces
widgets ….
rss
video chat
tagging
Uses custom search engine google.com/cse toward …
Google books search full textXerxesSome vender provide widgets (national academies)
- Tic Toc .. creates RSS feed for current contents .. went away .. see if it still exists ..
MY CONCLUSION : LibGuides is WAYYYYYYY BETTTTER
Recasting the Role of Comprehensive University Libraries: Starting Points forEducating Librarians on the Issues of Scholarly Communication andInstitutional Repositories
Selling pts.
VisibilityBranding Students for future employers (hmm ,, need driving innov… anticipate)
Physics … big
mit
harvad
berkley
stanford
princeton
#25 Southamton (1st to mandate publ. in OA journals)
——- GVSU —-
Schl. Comm. Wrkshps
4 sessions:
- readings before and into- find journals or models in [...]
Publishing in Open Access Journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Who’s Doing it and Why?
Coonin – East CarolinaYounce Auburn (after May 18)
free access for all authors pays ( 26% psychology .. [...]
Digital Libraries Need Digital Organizations:Identifying, Defining and Creating New Academic Library Management Structures
1966 – MARC1968-73 – Online Cat1971 – OCLC Union Cat – start collaboration in technology context1987 – Online Journals1991 – Web1996 – Google2001 – Wikipedia2005 – YouTube
Frustrated: Some sessions @ ACRL are wonderful, but some speakers are quite poor & have nothing to say; I swear 1 guy made it up as he spoke
Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries
Labs – Think Tanks – Testbeds – Sandboxes
Environ. Scan:Strat. PlansOrg chartsPosition announcements
Most is R&D is tech/open source/digitization
Labs w/ user communityPortal sand gateways at GMU for grads/facU Minn. “Dig lib Dev. Lab”Zotero and Bamboo Read: James Neal re: R&D ImperativeKatherine Dice – Library Trends [...]
DevShed – Mobile- Mobile Devices
… See Virtual Conf.
Low and no cost options:
Meebo
Twitter – Library News page (also Content Mang. Syst.)
Optimized Mobile site (Small – 5pgs) – redirect by branding with “Mobile” IconOptimized for for iPhone/iPodTouch – most traffic
PreConference –
Managing Change, Diversity, and a Multi-Generational Workforce: Developing Effective Problem Solving and Leadership Skills
Best workshop ever…
3 Tests:
MBTI – Im an “ESNP”
KAI
KGI
Twitter for Libraries: Best Practices and Advanced Uses of Micro-Blogs.. see Virtual Conf.
Both Social & Mobile .. the 2 most important new Libr Tech
Most Basic .. more complex microblogging systems have failed .. (Hmmm.. Disruptive Innov.)
Information literacy skills ..
Context:Mobile: Cell Phones (Smart Phones .. iPhones)Social “SMS Current awareness .. “blogs old fashioned” “not enough time [...]
KBART: Improving Access to Electronic Resources; plus, Finding the Hidden Side of Seattle – McCrackenOpen URL improvement.. to solve Inaccurate Data .. in NISO working group now
Presentation: KBART – > Seattle tip -> KBART -> Seattle tip -> etc.
Cornell -> creating a db to help provides write better OpenURLS
Workplace Information Literacy: Cultivation Strategies for Working Smarter in 21st Century LibrariesShoot Me Please! Lets get out of our own way .. “Informed Learning”
Flowcharts – Methodology, relevant models, perceptions, accomodations, yields, worldview, framework of ideas, area of concern, … Methodology description with no useful content,
informed learning, participatory action research, learning with and for beneficiaries, [...]
Allows people to be who they are, not what you want them to be
